Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades K – 5 | Podcast EpisodeBarnyard Antics
Move to the beat with musical barnyard animals who live it up when the sun goes down!

Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades 2 – 6 | Activity & ProjectBatter Up! Telling Sports Stories With Trading Cards
Summer is the time for baseball! Through the retelling of the 1941 baseball season, children will see two legendary players as characters and can create trading cards that highlight these players.

Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades 1 – 4 | Activity & ProjectBecome a Young Archaeologist
Want to visit a museum without leaving your computer? Virtually dig for famous historical artifacts from around the world found in the British Museum.

Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Professional Library | BookBe Fabulous: The Reading Teacher's Guide to Reclaiming Your Happiness in the Classroom
Scoggin merges her straight-talking blogger persona, Mrs. Mimi, with her years of research to help you rediscover who you are and redefine the type of literacy teacher you want to become. At the heart of this book is teacher happiness and empowermentóreconnect with your inner fabulous to give the best possible literacy instruction to your students.

Professional Development | Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | JournalBeing and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
This study examines the writing practices taken on and negotiated by multilingual class members within two multiage elementary classrooms.

Professional Development | Grades K – 5 | Professional Library | BookBeyond Reading and Writing: Inquiry, Curriculum, and Multiple Ways of Knowing
The authors offer theory-into-practice techniques, insight into how such a curriculum actually worked on a day-to-day basis, suggestions on how educators can better support and understand their students, and, insights the authors gained by undertaking this inquiry.

Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades K – 2 | Printout | Word PlayBingo Game
Use this printout to play bingo with your child on a wide variety of topics. This printout will help your child with sight words and will help improve his or her vocabulary and reading.

Classroom Resources | Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard LessonBingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading
The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.

Classroom Resources | Grades 1 – 12 | Calendar Activity |&nbsp October 17Black Poetry Day is celebrated.
Books and webpages are gathered that focus on the work of African American poets and students explore the resources and find a poem to contribute to a poetry reading.